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British pop star Lee Ryan wants to become ordained so he can officiate at his bandmate Antony Costa's upcoming wedding. The Blue singer is reportedly hoping to legally oversee his pal's marriage and has been researching into websites that will allow him to officiate at ceremonies.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Lee has always been a bit of a Casanova, but now he wants to play Cupid... He's a great believer in true love and is on a mission to create wonderful memories - if he can get through the vows without crying... Lee wants nothing more than to perform a marriage for his friends and will go to any lengths to make sure it's a magical day... Antony loves Lee like a brother, but with something this important, he just wants everything to go smoothly."
Costa got engaged to dental nurse Rosanna Jasmin in 2013 and they are hoping to tie the knot later this year (15).

Oscar winner Liza Minnelli is set to be feted for her lifetime of achievements at the upcoming Los Angeles-Italia Festival. The Cabaret star will be given the Jack Valenti Legend Award at the 10th annual event, which celebrates entertainment industry ties between Italy and Hollywood.
A statement from festival organisers announcing the prize reads: "We are extremely honored and delighted to be presenting this year's Jack Valenti Legend Award to the talented and lovely Liza Minnelli.As in prior years our board aims to recognize highly talented Italian-Americans who have made an impact on the industry and without a doubt, Liza fits the bill."
Named after long-time Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti, the accolade has previously been given to Al Pacino and Anjelica Huston.
Minnelli will be presented with the award during the festival's closing night ceremonies in Los Angeles on 20 February (15).

Benedict Cumberbatch's Oscar-nominated movie The Imitation Game looks set to be honoured by gay rights campaigners after receiving a top nod for the GLAAD Media Awards. The British actor plays gay mathematician Alan Turing in the World War II drama, and it is now the favourite to take the coveted Outstanding Film - Wide Release title at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's (GLAAD) prizegiving.
The Imitation Game, which is up for Best Picture at this year's (15) Oscars, faces competition from Love is Strange, Pride, The Skeleton Twins and Tammy.
In the TV categories, Game of Thrones, Grey's Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, and Masters of Sex are among those in the running for the Outstanding Drama Series trophy, while Outstanding Comedy Series includes Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Glee, Modern Family and Orange Is the New Black, among others.
The GLAAD Media Awards will be handed out at ceremonies in Los Angeles on 21 March (15) and in New York on 9 May (15).

Boyhood, Foxcatcher, Gone Girl and Guardians Of The Galaxy are among the eclectic films up for screenplay prizes at the 2015 Writers Guild of America Awards. WGA officials announced their nominees for best theatrical and documentary screenplay on Wednesday (07Jan15).
Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Foxcatcher will compete with The Grand Budapest Hotel, Nightcrawler and Whiplash for the Original Screenplay honour, while Gone Girl and Guardians of the Galaxy are up for the Adapted Screenplay prize alongside American Sniper, The Imitation Game and Wild.
Finding Vivian Maier, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, Last Days in Vietnam and Red Army will fight for the Documentary Screenplay award.
Last month (Dec14), the guild announced nominees in several other categories, including TV.
The awards will be handed out in simultaneous ceremonies taking place in Los Angeles and New York on 14 February (15).

Mr. Turner star Timothy Spall learned he had won a major prize at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May (14) while he was trying to fix his boat in Holland. The Brit admits he had left the event after promoting his new Mike Leigh film and had one hand up a "tube full of grease" while the other was holding toilet paper when the phone rang.
He recalls, "They don't pay for you to stay around to find out what the result is, so I went off and I went to my boat and I went to Holland... I had my hand up a tube full of grease on my boat... I pretended I knew what I was doing with this greasy pole; I had no idea.
"I got a phone call and it was guy who said, 'Timothy, you must come back to France... I cannot tell you (why). It is impossible... There's a car waiting for you'."
Spall pressed him for more details and the Cannes official said, "OK, you come back there might be something interesting for you to come here."
The actor and his wife hurriedly returned to Cannes via Nice airport and met the official, who had hired a police escort to race him back to the festival.
Spall adds, "As we were going through all these lights, I said to my wife, 'Things are looking up here, love'... Cut to me sitting in the cinema and the next thing I knew Jane Campion came down and said, 'The Best Actor at Cannes this year is Timothy Spall', and I just sat there. There was a tap on my shoulder and it was my publicist and he said, 'That's you...!'
"I was a little but overcome and I started blubbing (sic) and crying and thanking everybody... I ended up nearly thanking the guy who refused to sell me a gerbil when I was about six. All of a sudden you realise why people go bonkers at awards ceremonies, because it's so shocking."

Christmas will come early for Austrian actor Christoph Waltz this year (14) - he is to unveil the 2,536th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 1 December (14). The Oscar winner's pal and Django Unchained director Quentin Tarantino will be among the speakers inducting Waltz prior to the unveiling.
Announcing the news on Thursday (20Nov14), Ana Martinez, the producer of the Walk of Fame ceremonies, tells WENN, "Christoph Waltz is one of Austria's greatest exports and Hollywood is thrilled to add his name to our internationally known Walk of Fame."
The ceremony will come between the U.S. releases of two Waltz films - comedy Horrible Bosses 2 hits cinemas next week (26Nov14) and he will portray Walter Keane opposite Amy Adams in Tim Burton's drama Big Eyes, which will be released on Christmas Day (25Dec14).
Waltz will become the 15th Austrian-born celebrity to unveil a star - the others include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hedy Lamar, Peter Lorre and Billy Wilder.

Cyndi Lauper and Hugh Jackman have added their star power to an online petition calling on Tony Awards organisers to reverse their decision to scrap two sound design categories from future ceremonies. The Tony Awards Administration Committee members announced in June (14) that they would no longer be handing out honours for Best Sound Design of a Play and Best Sound Design of a Musical, six years after their introduction, sparking outrage among the professional theatre industry.
A campaign to reinstate the two awards, which celebrate the work of sound engineers, was launched online, and it has since won the support of more than 32,000 people, including the likes of theatre mogul Stephen Sondheim, Nine director David Leveaux, actress/filmmaker and choreographer Debbie Allen, Kinky Boots composer and lyricist Lauper and Broadway regular Jackman.
The petition has since been submitted to the Tony Awards Administration Committee, even though bosses claim the group "stands by" its "carefully studied decision".
The case will be handed over to the Tony Awards' Rules Committee for further review.

Neil Patrick Harris will host the 2015 Academy Awards!
The former How I Met Your Mother star is no stranger to hosting big ceremonies - he previously hosted the Tony Awards four times, and the Emmy Awards twice. Harris even scored three consecutive Outstanding Special Class Programme Emmy trophies for his contribution to the Tonys. Announcing the news on Wednesday (15Oct14), Oscars producer Neil Zadan said:
"We are thrilled to have Neil host the Oscars. We have known him his entire adult life, and we have watched him explode as a great performer in feature films, television and stage. To work with him on the Oscars is the perfect storm, all of his resources and talent coming together on a global stage." The Gone Girl star added, "It is truly an honour and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards. I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show. To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true."
The 87th Academy Awards will air live on 22 February, 2015. This year's (14) ceremony was hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.

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Once a year, we're treated to a cultural event unlike any other: the MTV Video Music Awards. Some of the moments from ceremonies past will live forever in our mind, from Chris Rock joking about Jennifer Lopez and her derrière's need for more than one limousine to Diana Ross jiggling Lil Kim's exposed breast. The show knows how to provoke controversy, and has thus remained a lightning rod for pop culture discussion since it began in 1984. This list isn't about the most controversial moments in the award show's history, but the most mesmerizing live performances it gave us (some of which, yes, surely did drum up some controversy).
1. Madonna - "Like A Virgin" 1984
Possibly one of the most iconic performances ever, period. Madonna's signature wedding dress and 'boy toy' belt are still synonymous with 80s pop culture, and it's all thanks to this performance. She rolls around on the floor quite suggestively, setting the tone for what we've come to expect from both the Queen of Pop and the VMAs.
2. Madonna - "Vogue" 1990
Madonna returned to the stage in 1990, decked out in Marie Antoinette-inspired clothing, and delivered this perfectly choreographed rendition of her classic "Vogue." Though completely covered as an 18th century aristocrat, Madge still managed to sexualize the performance by shoving faces into her bosom and lifting up her skirt to allow her backup dancers a peak beneath.
3. Madonna, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott - "Like A Virgin/Hollywood Medley" 2003
Now that's how you open an award show. Or is it? The downside of this majesty: it ended up being all anyone could talk about... for ten years. I don't think anything in VMAs history earned this must discussion until the dawn of Miley. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, at the time the two biggest pop stars around, having been so clearly influenced by Madonna, took to the stage to pay homage to her 1984 VMA performance only to be joined by the Queen herself. As everyone knows, eventually the Material Girl smooched both Spears and Aguilera (though for some reason, we mostly just focus on Britney Spears) before Missy Elliott came in and got everyone dancing away the shock.
4. Beyoncé - "Love On Top" 2011
NO. SHE. DIDN'T. This was a moment I'll never forget. Beyoncé came out, annihilated the song (which is an incredible feat in and of itself, spanning six key changes in one number), but then dropped the microphone and grabbed her budding baby bump to announce her pregnancy to the world. This performance still gives me chills, and when I think about it, I can't help but want to jump up and down like Kanye does at the end. It's just perfect.
5. Miley Cyrus &amp; Robin Thicke (feat. 2 Chainz &amp; Kendrick Lamar) - "We Can't Stop/Blurred Lines/Give It 2 U" 2013
The performance that everyone knows about... so much so that my grandfather just called me to ask how he can clear "Miley Cyrus twerk" from his YouTube history. In combination with her video for "Wrecking Ball," this performance made sure everyone would be talking about Miley Cyrus for months to come. It provoked discussions about sexuality, racial appropriation, and age differences. Not to mention, it helped destroy a marriage (thus leaving us to deal with a groveling Robin Thicke).
6. Diddy, Sting, Faith Evans, 112 - "I'll Be Missing You" 1997
A tribute to The Notorious B.I.G., this is an undeniably beautiful and meangingful song. Sting coming on stage to perform the sample of "Every Breath You Take" shows more than just artists collaborating to make wonderful music, but it demonstrates the music community coming together in remembrance of loved ones.
7. Beyoncé - "Ring the Alarm" 2006
Beyoncé is a goddess. We know. Beyoncé can do no wrong. We know. At the time of this performance though, Queen Bey was just beginning to prove just how much of a force to be reckoned with she was. I distinctly remember not being familiar with this song as she descended to the stage, but this performance sold me on it. The highlight isn't the amazing trench coat she twirls around in during the beginning of performance, but that unexpected hydraulicks-inspired dance routine that she does in the middle. Girl just slayed and slaaaayed.
8. Chris Brown &amp; Rihanna - "Wall to Wall"/"Umbrella"/"Billie Jean"/"Kiss Kiss" Medley 2007
Let's go back to a time when saying "Chris Brown" and "Rihanna" in the same sentence didn't immediately present a problem and focus on this gem of a performance from 2007. The two were rising stars with some of the biggest songs of the year, joining forces on stage for a magical moment. Say what you will about Chris Brown, but he's the best dancer we've had around since Michael Jackson. As he table-top dances and leaps from table to table, even eventually paying tribute to MJ, we were reminded of just how good he is.
9. Lady Gaga - "Paparazzi" 2009
Ladies and gentleman, Lady Gaga has arrived. She gave the sort of performance we've come to expect from her: theatrical, filled with musical ability, bizarre, and shocking. Mostly in the way it ended, with Mother Monster hanging on stage and bleeding to "death." Um... this was truly a shocking moment, even for her.
10. Britney Spears - "I'm a Slave 4 U" 2001
What made this one memorable? For one thing, she beings the performance in a cage with a tiger. That's just the start. Then she gives us the sort of magnificent dance routine that we love so much we're willing to worship whatever she does now just in memory of a performance like this. Just as you're thinking it won't get any better, the python comes out and Britney shimmies around the stage with the albino snake around her shoulders. (Can you believe there is an entire generation of people who were only able to witness Britney performances like "Gimme More?" I shudder to think).
11. Britney Spears - "Satisfaction/Oops! I Did It Again" 2000
This performance is perfect (and by that, we mean that it's flawed in a variety of ways, but if you're looking for real singing or anything substantial, watch the Grammys and hope for the best). Watching it now, knowing that she's going to rip off that suit and hat and give us one of the best choreographed hair tosses ever recorded, we can't help but get excited. The nude body suit and that booty grab at the 2:00 mark really cemented her place as a sex icon (as if the subtle schoolgirl costume and red latex catsuit hadn't already).
12. Hole - "Violet" 1995
Courtney Love is nothing if not raw. She dedicated this performance to a slew of deceased musicians and loved ones, including husband Kurt Cobain and bandmate Kristen Pfaff, and proceeded to rock out in typical Courtney style and tried to destroy everything on the stage. This, of course, happened before she threw the contents of her purse at Madonna and struck up a conversation in the middle of an interview.
13. Eminem - "The Real Slim Shady" / "The Way I Am" 2000
Eminem made a statement in 2000 by proving that he was the real Slim Shady, marching through Radio City Music Hall with a sea of imitators. More impressively is how many times he grabs his crotch. You'd think he was in genuine fear of being assaulted or something.
14. Kid Rock (feat. Run-DMC, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Joe C.) - "King of Rock"/"Rock Box"/"Bawitdaba"/"Walk This Way" 1999
What's not to like about this performance? As much as I wish I didn't like Kid Rock, I have to give him his props. This performance was stellar, and is probably one of the only performances on this list that my brother enjoyed watching too (just kidding, we mentioned Britney Spears stripping into a nude bodysuit, right?).
15. Michael Jackson - Medley 1995
At a whopping fifteen minutes long, this performance is more of a Michael Jackson concert than a VMA performance. However, it's definitely one of the better ways to spend fifteen minutes, as this performance is jam-packed with everything you'd expect from a Michael Jackson performance. He is the King of Pop, after all.

Australian pop icon Kylie Minogue has confirmed she'll be headlining the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony next month (Aug14), joining Scottish stars Lulu and Deacon Blue. The three acts will perform as volunteers and athletes are saluted at Glasgow's Hampden Park.
Head of ceremonies and artistic director David Zolkwer says, "It's been an absolutely amazing time but now we've reached the bittersweet moment when we brace ourselves for the inevitable goodbyes and the farewells. So, after an incredible feast of sport and culture, we're delighted to invite everyone 'back to ours' to party big time, in Glasgow style.
"As the CGF (Commonwealth Games Federation) flag will soon be travelling from Scotland to Australia, our line up naturally reflects that journey. We're thrilled that such talented artists, both emerging and iconic, have enthusiastically accepted our invitation to join the party to help create an unforgettable night, a send-off for the athletes of the Commonwealth and to the millions of people watching the ceremony around the world who have been Glasgow's guests for the last 11 days."
Last week's (ends25Jul14) opening ceremony featured performances by Rod Stewart and Susan Boyle.